Arabic edit

Etymology edit

Reduplication of س ل ل (s-l-l).

Root edit

س ل س (s-l-s)

  1. related to slickness

Derived terms edit

  • سَلِس (salis, loose, slack; tractable)
  • سَلْس (sals, a thread of gems or shells for necklaces)
  • سَلَاسَة (salāsa, tractability)
  • أَسْلَس (ʔaslas, more tractable)
  • سَلُوس (salūs, tractable)
  • سَلِسَة (salisa, a certain herb having awns flying about and sticking in beasts, similar to نَصِيّ (naṣiyy))
  • سُلَاس (sulās, departure of mental capacity)
  • مِسْلَاس (mislās, devoid of branches at the bottom)
  • >? سَالُوس (sālūs, slick words)

References edit

  • Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 650
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “س ل س”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 340
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “س ل س”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc[2] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages 1121b–1122a
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “س ل س”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[3], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1404–1405